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A wreath of songs.
Cambridge.
Deighton, Bell and Co., 1880.
First edition.
8vo.
63pp, [1]. Original publisher's dark green cloth, stamped in black and gilt. A trifle rubbed. Internally clean and crisp. Ink inscription to head of title page: 'E. Ricardo Christie / May (?) 1880 / Private copy', with very occasional notes in his hand.
The sole edition of an anthology of verse composed by the Cambridge Lotos Club, 'a little gathering of Undergraduates'; dedicated to historian and senior fellow of King's College, Oscar Browning (1837-1923). A second (and final) series, New Songs, appeared in 1881.
Edward Ricardo Christie (b. 1859), Church of England clergyman; matriculated Christ Church College, Cambridge in 1879. Author (under the pseudonym Julian Home) of Sketches of Cambridge, in verse (1879), and 'Home they brought her warrior dead', an In memoriam to the late prince imperial of France (1880). The latter, according to an article in The Church Portrait Journal (April, 1887), was translated into French and ran though five editions.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 23912
Edward Ricardo Christie (b. 1859), Church of England clergyman; matriculated Christ Church College, Cambridge in 1879. Author (under the pseudonym Julian Home) of Sketches of Cambridge, in verse (1879), and 'Home they brought her warrior dead', an In memoriam to the late prince imperial of France (1880). The latter, according to an article in The Church Portrait Journal (April, 1887), was translated into French and ran though five editions.
